WEBVTT - Water sports 💦 0:00:08.440 --> 0:00:10.080 Hello, I'm Artsimone. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:13.920 During my time as a fabulous, gorgeous and talented drag queen, oh, 0:00:14.000 --> 0:00:17.200 I've realized that even the most ordinary and regularly seeming 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.919 people can actually be some of the most interesting. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:24.160 I'm speaking with normal looking people who live ordinary lives 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:25.240 and trying. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:29.360 To uncover what interesting job, hobby or secret they're concealing. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.920 I don't know what they're concealing, and neither do you. 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:36.240 We'll meet the guest, find out a little bit about them, 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.520 and after three heart hitting questions, I'll try and uncover 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.479 what they're concealing, and then we can find out together. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:47.040 Welcome to conceal it with me, arts Simone. Alright, time 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:48.000 to meet the guests. 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:48.760 Roll the time. 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:55.360 I'm Tara. I'm twenty two and I'm from Melvin, Victoria 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:58.680 and I'm a full time law student at Monash University. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:02.640 I'm still specialized in law, but I'm very interested in 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:07.520 constitutional law and entertainment law. Outside of studying, I love 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:10.720 to go to the beach, I love water sports. I'm 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.039 excited for art to guess my secret because, on the 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:18.319 one hand, I have just been on TV telling people 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:21.240 what I do, so she might have seen me. But 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.960 On the other hand, I think it's not super common 0:01:25.280 --> 0:01:28.280 or expected, so it might be a little bit tricky. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.560 Hello, I'm in the city with Tara. How are you. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:33.959 I'm great? How are you? 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:36.840 I'm doing very well. Thank you for joining me here, 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:38.000 having me all right? 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.720 So, Tara, you've got beautiful long hair, no, a little 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.000 curl in it, some nice highlights through the front, gorgeous. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:46.480 Noah's black skivy. Do you wear that when you do 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:47.280 law things? 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:48.040 Yeah? 0:01:48.120 --> 0:01:51.840 Quite professional, it's very Dare I say Apple Store? No? 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:54.320 Like not Apple Store? What's his name? He's dead? 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:54.560 Now? 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.720 What's his name? Guy? The Apple? Steve Jobs? Jobs? 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.320 Yeah, this is my take me seriously outside. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:04.840 Yes, Jobs, you've got a shell on a necklace around 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:10.680 your neck. Sunning, beautiful, gorgeous, talented, unique, incredible, show stopping 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:11.760 never the same. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.160 Okay, so you like to go to the beach? 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:17.720 Yes. 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.120 I hate that you're putting me in this situation because 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:23.600 you said you like water sports, and I just it's 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.919 very dangerous to say that in front of a drag queen, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:27.520 and all I will say is me too. 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:28.440 But that's great. 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.720 What I'm going to do is ask you three questions 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:36.480 and hopefully from the answers to those three questions, I 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:41.040 can determine what your secret is. So first question for you, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:42.640 what is your spirit animal? 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:47.560 My spirit animal is a dolphin? Okay, okay, because I 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.720 love the water and I love the ocean and dolphins 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.160 very smart. So that's that's pretty cool. 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.000 Okay okay. And speaking of like smart things, you're studying law. 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:01.639 So if you weren't studying law, what would you be studying? 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:10.120 Probably astrophysics? Yeah, what a physics? 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:10.440 Yeah? 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.519 I loved physics growing up and I was very into 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.960 Like I was that kid that was always like, but why, 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:17.799 but why when they said, you know, where did the 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.359 universe came from? The Big Bang? Yes? But where did 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.720 all the matter for the Big Bang come from? Came from? 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.680 A black? Oh? Yeah, but where did that come from? 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:27.679 No, you don't ask any more questions in that Tara. 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:30.880 Because then you realize that were insignificant and we mean nothing. 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:32.880 Everyone on a flying little rock through the space and 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:33.800 we're all going to die. 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:35.720 I hate that. Oh my goodness. 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.240 I can't even look up at the stars at night 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.480 time because they didn't feel sick. I'm like, oh, yeah, 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:42.400 that's a that's a sun, and there's more planets, and 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:45.480 it's probably aliens. N. I like to keep it local, 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.440 you know, likeal to Earth, not just my suburb. I 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.480 do get out of the house sometimes. 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:51.640 Every now and again. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.120 As physicists, So you're good at physics. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.120 I it was probably not anymore. 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.400 It's all just maths. Yeah, so you've got to maths were. 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.520 What was good? I'd say, Now I use my fingers again, 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:04.640 but okay, used to be good at maths. 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.320 That's funny though. They just count your fingers as you 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.960 get older. But they're very useful. 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:11.440 We have them for a reason. 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.680 Exactly, counting eating activities. Oh, so many exciting things with 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:20.080 a finger exactly. And third question, what do you look 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:21.120 for in a partner? 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:26.800 A few things. Definitely somebody who's smart, needs someone who can, 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.159 you know, hold a conversation. But I also look for 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:34.560 somebody who's a bit adventurous and open to trying crazy things. 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.880 And also somebody has lots of weird and interesting hobbies. 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:41.200 Somebody who gets what it's like to be entertained by 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:46.480 unique things. 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:51.960 Okay, your spirit animal would be a dolphin. Yes, okay, 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:54.960 you also love the beach, love to be in the water. Yes, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:05:00.719 you be studying astrophyzi that one, yep, And you look 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.560 for a partner. You want someone that's smart, vengerous hobbies, 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:05.040 strange hobbies. 0:05:05.360 --> 0:05:08.120 So I have to determine what you're hiding from me. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:12.920 Okay, wor sports dolphins, smart things? 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:15.320 Smart smart smart? Okay? 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:19.240 Do you dress up as an adult mermaid and like 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:22.160 swimming swimming calls? 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.880 My secret is that I'm a real life mermaid. I 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:29.920 perform as a mermaid at kids parties, at corporate events 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:34.040 and inaquariums. I have been a professional mermaid for over 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:40.160 five years now. Yes, Oh my godness, no one ever 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:41.840 gets that. That's amazing. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.520 I won the game. I'm really needed. I've worked yet. 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:49.320 Who you are? I'm obsessed with mermaids like that. I 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:49.919 just love it. 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.040 Tower is in fact a real life human mermaid woman person. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.360 Oh it's so exciting. I got it right, I actually 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:02.200 got it right. And I just love mermaids. But how 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:04.840 did she get into it? Why did she get into it? 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:21.000 But also how wet? So we're here with Tara the 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.800 human Mermaid, of which I have just guessed correctly, because 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.080 I'm amazing. I have been studying for this my whole life. 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:30.240 But I feel like there's so much more information I 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:34.520 can get from the source. So first of all, how 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.840 did you get into being a mermaid? 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:39.200 I wish I had like a really cool origin story 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.160 like a superhero, but it's it's a bit bland. I 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.280 was doing kids parties as like our Sun Princesses and 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.000 all that kind of stuff, and I have a background 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:52.719 in like scuba diving and sort of ocean water related stuff. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.280 I was watching YouTube, so YouTube of a girl swimming 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:57.800 as a mermaid in America, and I did a bit 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.000 of research realizing no one was really doing it in Australia. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:02.520 So I was like, okay, sounds like a job for me, 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:04.240 and I jumped jumped on it. 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:05.440 You swim to it? 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:06.279 Do it? 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.400 I did you say you do for kids parties and 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.880 things too? Do you take a pool with you? 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.560 Normally I go to people's houses if they have a pool, 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:15.920 I'll swim in the pool, and if they don't, I 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.320 just sort of sit on a couch like a fish 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.560 out of water and entertain from there. But my favorite 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.600 one to do is beach appearances, so where the kids 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.239 will have a party at the beach and I'll swim 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.400 in from the ocean and stay hi and play some 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.520 games and then swim back out and disappear. 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:32.240 I feel like we have a lot to talk about 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.640 because I, for my entire career have done Hen's parties 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:38.200 and birthday parties, and I know about a lot of 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:40.600 the logistical elements of trying to even just show up 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.680 to one of those things on time, let alone in 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:44.640 a Mermaid tail. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:46.920 Yeah, and then I have to do it all without 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:50.400 sort of being seen as a land person. So it's 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.160 a lot of a lot of work with the parents 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.880 and a lot of we'll call it distracting kids. There's 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:57.600 cake over there. Oh my gosh, did you see the 0:07:57.600 --> 0:07:59.080 birdfly pass go out a look? 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:01.520 Land person? 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.760 Does that mean it's correct terminology you have to use 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:06.680 within the Mermaid world? 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.280 I mean probably not, But I feel like saying, you know, 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:12.960 I took off my toe and walked away sounds a 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:16.400 little bit less magical than you know, my land person off. 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.440 Oh my goodness. We have a lot in common. Now, 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.720 where do you source your Mermaid things from? 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:24.480 Well? I have lots of shell sort of jewelry, and 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.680 I have crowns and headpieces and sea stars and all 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:29.880 of that, and I have different tops. I have sort 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.000 of ones that match the scales of my tail I 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.680 have just sea shells. Depends on the crowd as well. 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.200 Are we talking under five over fifty? You know that 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.360 kind of vibe. But yeah, I have like almost a 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:43.760 whole closet full of Mermaid paraphernalia and accessories and outfits. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.720 There's not really a market for Mermaid tails. So I 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.640 actually made my own. So I yeah, I a three 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:56.000 D printed about nine about nine thousand sort of scales 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.440 that then got sewn onto a base. Yeah, so it's 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.960 very often. It feels really real, looks really real. But 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:03.200 it was a lot of work. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:08.079 You three D printed scales to make your own Mermaid tail. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.800 Yes, and then sewed them all on pay steak. 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:12.959 Wait are they on like a wet soup material? 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.120 Yeah, like a new print. So at first it was 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:17.880 a bit bizarre, But now, honestly, I get in the 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.480 water without it and I feel like I'm about to 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:22.880 drown home. I don't know how to do this anymore. 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:25.520 Your land legs, you see, it's your land legs not 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:26.280 designed for the water. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:30.679 No, I just feel like it'd be really claustrophobic, Like 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:33.480 I even some costumes I wear sometimes I'm like I 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:35.880 have to like remove myself from thinking about it because 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.640 I'm like, I can't. I could be stuck here right now. 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.119 And I got stuck in a jacket the other day. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:45.440 My life flashed before my eyes. I was like, I'm 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:47.640 in a dressing grip by myself in a different state 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.360 at the moment. Everyone's gone home, and I couldn't get 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.440 my hands out of a jacket. It was like the 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:55.520 most uncomfortable thing in the world. It took twenty five 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:57.880 minutes to get out, but I did, and I'm here today. 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.000 So you just got the one tail at the moment. 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:01.480 Working with one tail at the moment, I feel like 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:03.319 it's a recipe for disaster. I think it's time to 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:04.360 upgrade to two. 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:08.400 You can have your timetail, your day toil cocktail tail, 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:14.040 my everydaytail. I just call that your cocktail. But how 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:15.720 fast can you see me in a mermaid tail? 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:19.360 I mean, I've never timed myself, but I definitely a 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.520 lot quicker than them without one, that's for sure. They 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.080 have a lot of propulsion. My flipper is like a 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.400 monofin the competitive free divers for the people who dive 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:31.000 without a tank, they all use monofins, so it is 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.120 a product you can actually Yeah, so it is actually 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.120 a sport piece that you used to swim faster in 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.360 the ocean. I mean, all the extra pretty bits probably 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:42.800 make it a little bit less effective, but it is 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:45.559 actually designed for ye competitive swimming. 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.840 Even the aerodynamics if you have three D printing scales 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:48.480 and stuff. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:51.480 Yeah, there was a lot of trial and error and 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:53.560 a lot of where's the shallowest pool we can find 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:54.599 for me to try this out in? 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:58.400 Yeah, we don't want to sink in like drown. Oh 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:01.440 my god? How long and you hold your breath for underwater? 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.360 Then? I mean at the moment post holidays in COVID, 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.720 probably about thirty seconds, but in my peak about yeah, 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:11.040 two and a half minutes, three minutes? What yeah, when 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:14.320 I'm well trained, that's not possible? Is possible? 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:15.000 That's death. 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.000 I'm pretty sure the record is like seven minutes or something. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.079 Well that memde then, wasn't it? 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:21.400 Yeah? 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:21.880 Real made? 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.360 Yeah, real member, So you could you could hold your 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.920 breath for two and a half minutes? How much training 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:28.040 does it go into that? 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:28.480 A lot? 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:29.920 Like do you just sit at home. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:30.040 And go. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:36.000 Well, honestly, wish it were that simple. But as soon 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.240 as you're underwater and move use up a lot mores. 0:11:38.320 --> 0:11:38.880 Yeah. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.400 So when I was sort of starting out, I was 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.480 already very very active water wise. I was scuba diving 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.560 a lot, which also helped expand my lung capacity and 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:49.200 taught me how to sort of use as little oxygen 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.320 underwater and stuff, because scuba is all about being really 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.880 calm and you know, very meditative and it's very cool. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.280 I've never had formal free dive training, but I was 0:11:58.320 --> 0:11:58.880 self taught. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:01.440 What's formal? Free? Don't have training. I don't know what 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:02.080 free time. 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:07.000 Free timing. No, Honestly, I think unless you're like actively 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.439 doing it, you probably would not know what it is. 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.199 So you have scuba, which is with a tank and 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:13.240 all equipment free diving. The idea is that you're more 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.240 connected to the ocean, so you have nothing except maybe 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.400 flippers and goggles. So you're diving just using your lungs 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:20.360 and holding your breath. 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:24.000 No, yes, no, no, I've decided that's a no. 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.239 Yeah. 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:27.840 Yes, so for two and a half minutes, that's a 0:12:27.880 --> 0:12:32.839 really long time. So you're inside like an aquarium. Yeah, yeah, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:34.840 how do you faget to kids being like, oh yes, 0:12:35.440 --> 0:12:38.079 just going up to the books above the water. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:41.480 Normally I will bring something down, So each time I 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.160 come down, I bring a new piece of treasure to 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.360 show them, which explains why I'm only there for a 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:46.760 little bit of time, you know, because I need to 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:48.200 go up and get my next piece of treasure. 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.840 You've got the backstories. All I have to say is, yes, 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.760 I'm a lady. But you it's a lot harder for you. 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.280 Yeah, I've had some very interesting questions that you gotta 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:58.240 gotta think on your feet, but I feel like after 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:00.040 five years I've had them all more or less. It 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:00.880 takes a lot to surprise me. 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:01.160 Now. 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.040 It does get to that point where you have experienced 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:05.720 every single type of question possible. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:05.959 Yep. 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.040 But every now and then there's something that you're just like, 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:09.320 where did you even pull that from? 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.400 Yes, you do get the sort of you're not a 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:14.320 real mermaid. But I don't want to say that my 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.559 skill is manipulating children because that would sound really, really bad. However, 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.439 having said that, little things like who here believes in mermaids? 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:25.280 And then everyone except that child raise their hand. Well, 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:26.760 we're all going to play a game where you can 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.160 win prizes, and then all of a sudden, everyone wants 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:30.040 to believe in mermaids. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:32.320 You're going to be good in law, You're going to be. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:33.720 So maybe don't tell people. 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.160 I said, that's so clever. 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:39.600 I feel like you can also bloody run like parenting classes. 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.160 But it is beautiful. I do love my job and 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.320 I'm very humbled by what I get to do as well. 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.800 I did a party and maybe like a week later, 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.160 I had a mom email me because at the party, 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.920 I do like a treasure hunt, and I explain, you know, 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:54.520 when I'm swimming through the ocean, I see all sorts 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:56.120 of things in the ocean. I have to clean it 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:57.760 all up, and most of it is not good stuff. 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.200 Most of it is rubbish and makes me sad because 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.120 my home is being destroyed. And YadA, yadiyada. 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:05.480 I'm believing you, by the way, yeah you yes. 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:07.040 So I do collect some treasure and I bring it 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.520 with and then the kids get to do a treasure hunt. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.480 And I had this mom email me a week after 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.360 the party with a photo of her daughter holding sort 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.400 of two giant bags of rubbish and told me that 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.079 they went to the beach. It was like a thirty 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:19.120 five degree day. All they want to do is get 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:22.040 in the water. And this child insisted that Mermaidarial doesn't 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:23.600 get to play until she's cleaned up the ocean. So 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.040 we have to clean up the beach before we go 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.200 in the water, and spend like an hour cleaning the 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:29.480 whole beach of all the rubbish. And those are the 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:33.840 moments where I'm like, yeah, oh, I swear every. 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:35.480 Time where you have a guess, I feel even worse 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:40.840 about myself because I am just a ransom. 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:45.720 That's so cool. I love that. Does your mermaid persona 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:46.360 have a name? 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:50.160 I go by Mermaid Terriel. Yes, like Ariel, but Tara. 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:51.560 I didn't choose the name. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:52.720 It it chose you. 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.880 It did choose me a little bit. I was sixteen 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:56.960 when I started this business, so I told my whole family. 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:57.600 Yeah. 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.400 I told my wholeamily, I'm going to be a real mermaid, 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.160 and they also went, yeah, yeah you are. My dad 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.600 lives in Berlin and I fly between the two countries, 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.520 and I rocked up to the airport in Berlin and 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.640 my dad's standing there with a giant sign going welcome 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.960 home Mermaid Tarryel as a joke, and I said, you 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.000 know what, I'm using it and look at me now. 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.960 One of my drag names in my early career was 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.000 Scabitha because it's like Tabitha but better, so I get 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:25.800 it's kind of terry, it's not. And what is the 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.640 craziest gig you've ever done as a mermaid. 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.840 Honestly, I've been very lucky in the sense that I 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.520 was so far only ever done very sort of wholesome, 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.840 had very wholesome experiences. I haven't had that like who 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:39.720 party that you just wanted to get out of. But 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.360 the coolest thing I've ever very lucky, I am. I 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.680 am very lucky, and I'm very aware of my fortune. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.600 I fake fake who ever looking down at me every day. 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:51.480 But the coolest thing I've ever done was I performed 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:53.400 at the aquarium in Berlin, so I got to swim 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.120 in the actual tank with the sharks and the stingrays, 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:57.600 and that was that was cool. 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.440 I've been married a scale and fall off and. 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:05.400 They're biodegradable, so okay, yeah you really. 0:16:06.280 --> 0:16:06.480 Well. 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:10.280 Mark glitter is degradable too, so I'm just as good 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.560 for the environment. I think I'll get into this man 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:16.200 made great at it, but I could be a parking 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:17.120 barker where you. 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.720 Just sit there and yeah, just fly around a little bit. 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.800 Has there been a moment in your mema Creer were 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.760 You're like, oh, this is probably not good. 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:26.880 Me being trapped in a jacket. I thought I was 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:27.320 gonna die. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:34.800 So the sort of most overwhelming thing that ever happens 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:36.720 is I always at the party's kids get to go 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.760 for a ride on my back underwater with a mermaid. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.920 Yeah, that's a death sentence waiting to happen. 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.480 And the only time where like I might feel less 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:47.640 comfory than usual is the kids who are a bit 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.800 nervous and get like the death grip on your throat 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.880 and are like holding on for dear life. And I'm like, okay, 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:54.520 it's just one end of the floor or the other. 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:56.560 I don't need to breathe underwater anyway, We got this 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:58.920 normally make it to the other side. That's the closest 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.760 I get to being uncomfortable. You know what my nightmare 0:17:01.880 --> 0:17:04.040 is when it's super shallow because I can't swim, so 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:09.360 I'm just army crawling across the beach. It's not very 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:14.480 claro and rival. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:23.840 Yeah, think of that. Oh God, the tides out. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:27.399 Or worse when I arrive and the tiders in. But 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:29.360 by the time I leave the tides out and I'm 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:32.600 completely beached and I'm like trying to bum shuffle my 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:34.840 way down to the water again, and all the kids 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.640 are following me. Oh to your it's it's a less 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.040 glamorous side of mermaiding. 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:45.040 Yeah, you bring a chaperone with you to like, you 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:46.879 don't go solo to these parties. 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.280 No, yeah, no, no, no, we're changing that now. 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.760 That's why you need to have a partner, because you 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:55.959 just become like fondle of for everyone. They're just like, oh, 0:17:56.040 --> 0:17:57.959 I've bought you for the next hour, so I'm going 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.000 to touch you or this once this another person will. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:01.879 I mean when I do adult parties, I bring a 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:05.359 sharper yea for kids to be worse. Yeah, although I 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:07.320 do a lot of screening before and so I do, like, 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.119 you know, a phone call a week before to discuss 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.239 everything and lots of emails back and forth, so they 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.760 do get you know, a lot of information. And I 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.720 have got quite I'm a little students. I have got 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.919 some pretty good liability waivers included in booking stuff, so 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.639 I cover my bases. But yeah, corporate events or adult events, 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.919 that's where I tend to bring. But surprisingly enough. I 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.879 get hit on a lot more at kids parties than 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:30.320